Transcript DReAMS meets Rio+20 - Realising DReAMS Project

2nd Project Team Meeting
Freiburg, 11 February 2011
Towards the next decades of Local Action
Realising DReAMS meets Rio+20
Holger Robrecht
Director Sustainability Management
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
• „Once upon a time …“
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When the cell-phone appeared
Preparing for the next 2 decades
After Hopenhagen
After
Hopenhagen
„Perhaps more than anywhere else, cities offer the
opportunity to develop adaptation and mitigation win-win
ininitiatives. In the absence of decisive global policies on
climate change, cities need to serve as centres of policy
ingenuity to drive real action.
Yvo de Boer, former Exective Secretary, United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Change Impacts
Source: UNEP, Climate in Peril
70
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6.4bn
2010
3.5b
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2.9bn
.7bn
.2bn
1900
1950
2000
2050
Source : Jeb Brugman / UN Wolrd Population Prospect 2006/2007
Overshoot Day
2010:
23. August
September 23, 2008
October 6, 2007
Quelle: Global Footprint Network
„As of tomorrow, you‘ll be rationale again."
Taken from: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 2009
Lead-up to Rio+20
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State of play with LA 21 and local sustainability
Position papers: Green Economoy, Int.
Environmental Governance, Global Framework
for Local Sustainability
Case Studies
Web Portal
‚Local Government summit‘
DReAMS meets Rio+20
• Local Stories of global responsibility
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(Rio + 20 Study, TEEB)
Advanced ecoBUDGET / PDMS
Tools
Briefing Note: Towards meeting MDG‘s
Advocacy: Planning impact – Newsletter,
Views, Conferences
DReAMS meets Rio+20
Can we do a commitment?
Realising DReAMS
Realising DReAMS
Avoiding Nightmares